Rayme has been a Professional Actor for over 25 years. Rayme is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Actors Equity Association.

Rayme is an Associate Professor at The Conservatory at Webster University. She began her teaching career as an Assistant Professor in the Stage & Screen Acting program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she taught Acting, Shakespeare, Modern Styles, Audition Techniques, and Voice-Overs, in the MFA and Undergraduate Acting programs. She was the host of the national award-winning PBS show Real Moms, Real Stories, Real Savvy. She has worked in film, television, Off Broadway and with some of the nations’ most prestigious Regional Theatres. Her favorite roles include; Cassandra in Trojan Women at The Old Globe, directed by Seret Scott; The Greek Chorus, in the World Premier of Trevor Nunn and John Barton’s seven hour play, The Greeks, at The Alley Theatre directed by Gregory Boyd; Louise Marie Therese, in the Premier of Lynn Nottage’s play Las Meninas at Crossroads, directed by Daniela Veron; Elmire in Tartuffe directed by Garland Wright and Olivia in Twelfth Night directed by Penny Metropulos with The New York Acting Company; Olivia in Twelfth Night directed by Marco Barricelli at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Aunt Cora in the World Premier of the John Henry Redwood play ‘No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs’ at The Philadelphia Theatre Company and New York’s Primary Stages directed by Israel Hicks; Titania in Midsummer directed by Michael Weller and Queen Margaret in Richard III directed by Jan Powell at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Odessa in Water by the Spoonful directed by Christopher Edwards, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth directed by Darren Weller, Diane in Little Dog Laughed, Arkadina in the Seagull and Mrs. Muller in Doubt at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre. Other regional theatre credits; Arizona Theatre Company, Vinyard Playhouse, The O’Neill, Missouri Repertory Theatre and The Unicorn Theatre. Rayme is also known for her extensive voice-over work. Rayme is a Master Teacher at the Don LaFontaine Voice Over Lab at the Screen Actors Guild Foundation in Los Angeles and New York. Her greatest role to date is that of being Brick’s Mom.

Tony Merritt, II is very excited to work with Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. He has most recently been seen in “Pride and Prejudice” at the Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis. The Saint Louis native is currently pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.

Elizabeth Teeter is thrilled to help celebrate the work of Tennessee Williams, after last being seen in New York as “Lily” in Atlantic Theater Company’s 2019 Off-Broadway production of The Secret Life of Bees. Broadway credits include “Betty” in the 2016 Tony nominated revival of The Crucible (Dir. Ivo Van Hove); “Young Elizabeth” in The Audience starring Helen Mirren; and “Jane Banks” in closing company of Mary Poppins. Other NYC credits include workshops of Merman’s Apprentice (recording on iTunes), Lord Tom with Phillip Boykin, Ever After directed by Kathleen Marshall, and more. Regional performance venues include: The Muny, The Rep, Opera Theatre St. Louis, The Tennessee Williams Festival, and Variety Theatre. Television: The Last O.G. (TBS). Special thanks to Lisa Campbell Albert for her endless vocal wisdom & guidance and to Katie Britton at Buchwald. @elizabethteeterofficial

Bradley is a native south Texan born and raised in San Antonio. He recently understudied for the Broadway Production of The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, and played Biron in the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis’ Love’s Labours Lost. He is a graduate from Yale School of Drama (‘16) and The University of the Incarnate Word (‘13).

Rachel Tibbetts is thrilled to be returning to the Tennessee Williams Festival and one of her favorite roles as Flora in A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot. Rachel is a founding member and co-producer of SATE and has directed and performed in many of their productions. She has also worked with ERA, The Midnight Company, R-S Theatrics, YoungLiars, West End Players Guild, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Mustard Seed Theatre, and Upstream Theater. She has worked in arts education since 2000 at the Delaware Theatre Company, Young Audiences of St. Louis, and Prison Performing Arts. Rachel recently was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy by the St. Louis Theatre Circle for her performance in ERA's Never Let Go: a one-woman Titanic. Love to my Rose.

Born and raised in St. Louis, MO, Donathan Walters is an alum of the St. Louis Black Repertory children’s summer acting Program (‘04), and graduated in 2015 with a BFA in Screen Acting from Chapman University in Orange, CA. Living in Los Angeles for 4 years, performing and workshopping classical and new works, his craft has been showcased with theatres such as: Metro Theatre Company (StL), The Denver Center for The Performing Arts, The Theatre @ Boston Court, International City Theatre, and Rogue Machine Theatre in Santa Monica. Some of his voice-over credits include NBA 2K18 and 2K19 video games. Donathan now lives in New York City, where he is currently pursuing his MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting program. He is excited to be making his debut with the Tennessee Williams Festival of St. Louis.

Kelley was last seen onstage in last season’s production of A Lovely Afternoon for Creve Coeur for which she won a Theatre Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy. She is the Theater Director at ClaytonHigh School where she’s been for over 20 years. Kelley holds her MFA in Acting and Directing from Univ of MO, KC and The KC Rep.

Maggie hails from mid-Missouri, transplated to STL after graduating from Lindenwood University, and is delighted to collaborate with TWSTL once more. Credits include A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (STL Theatre Circle Award Winner), Rooming House Plays (TWSTL), Macbeth, Hamlet, The Liar, As You Like It (St. Louis Shakespeare), Educating Rita (STL Theatre Circle Award Winner), Murdering Marlowe, A Picasso (WEPG), Amadeus (Rep STL), among others. Special thanks to her Padres, Anthony, and the beloved Virginia.

Donna Weinsting is delighted to be part of the Tennessee Williams St. Louis radio plays. She has worked for many of the professional theaters in St. Louis, regionally, Off-Broadway and in Houston, TX.

David Kaplan is the curator and cofounder of the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts, now in its fifteenth year. He wrote “Tennessee Williams in Provincetown” and edited “Tenn at One Hundred,” a centennial collection of biographical essays. He has staged plays by Williams in Hong Kong (“Eccentricities of a Nightingale”), in Uruguay and Ghana (“Ten Blocks on the Camino Real”) in Russia (Suddenly Last Summer), in New Orleans (“The Hotel Plays”) and in St. Louis ("The Rooming-House Plays").

Tim Ocel’s theater work associates him with American Players Theatre (The Book of Will, A View from the Bridge, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It); Shakespeare Santa Cruz (Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well); Theatre Emory in Atlanta (The Greek Project: Agamemnon/Electra, The Good Person of Setzuan, G. B. Shaw’s Back to Methuselah); Georgia Shakespeare Festival (King Lear, Measure for Measure, Richard II); and Sacramento Theatre Company (Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Grapes of Wrath, A Raisin in the Sun, Lonely Planet, 5th of July).

Mr. Ocel also has artistic relationships with Indiana Repertory Theatre (Every Brilliant Thing, The Whipping Man, Death of a Salesman); Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY (My Fair Lady, 12 Angry Men, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound) and the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University (Fahrenheit 451, The Children’s Hour, Carousel, The Threepenny Opera, The Cherry Orchard, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Caucasian Chalk Circle).

Mr. Ocel’s directing credentials in the world of opera include the St. Louis premieres of Dead Man Walking and Doubt at Union Avenue Opera; Opera Theatre of St. Louis (Carmen, La Boheme, Haydn’s Armida, and the 1998 American premiere of Alexander Goehr’s Arianna); Lyric Opera of Kansas City (Billy Budd, The Elixir of Love, Salome, Verdi’s Macbeth, Un Ballo in Maschera); and Boston Lyric Opera (La Boheme, Tosca, Candide).

Other productions in St. Louis include A Streetcar Named Desire and The Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis), Jackie and Me (Metro Theatre Company), Old Wicked Songs and New Jerusalem (New Jewish Theater). Future productions include Stones in His Pockets (APT) scheduled for the Fall of 2021.

Tim resides in St. Louis with his husband, Peter Shank.

Website: www.timocel.com

Henry Palkes is a graduate pianist of The Juilliard School and joined the WU Music Dept. faculty in 1995, and Performing Arts Department in 2010. Recently returned from the two year First National Tour of “An American In Paris” Henry focuses much of his musical interest on music for dance and in that pursuit has become a much sought after ballet and dance pianist, playing classes at Washington University, Webster and COCA. He teaches two courses in Musical Theater at WU, and professionally has won two Kevin Kline Awards for his musical direction.